The book examines India’s current and looming foreign policy challenges from a strategic and policy-oriented perspective. It analyzes the long-term factors and trends that should determine the country’s foreign policy formulation. The author urges a reappraisal of India’s approach if it is to become a major player in the complex and rapidly evolving 21st century world.
Strategic Conundrums: Rethinking India’s Foreign Policy focuses on India’s immediate and strategic neighbourhood. It also looks at important issues like energy security, economic diplomacy, the interaction between defence and diplomacy, and foreign policy institutions. A unique feature of the book is that it combines the perspectives of a historian, a diplomat and a scholar. With many new out-of-the-box ideas and policy suggestions, it makes a valuable contribution to the ongoing debate on foreign policy within India’s strategic community.
This lucid and succinct book is a must-read for policy-makers, diplomats and foreign policy analysts. The corporate and business community too will find it professionally relevant. It is also an important knowledge resource for students of Indian politics, international relations, and defence and strategic studies, and others who are interested in India’s foreign policy.
Lord Shiva, the most mystical and enigmatic deity of the Vedic pantheon, remains the most popular and yet, the least understood personality.
From being the destroyer to the most compassionate, being the personification of anger to the one who is easily pleased, living a life of complete detachment from the material to blessing his worshipers with material opulence, he remains a perfect puzzle to most.
Lord Shiva is often depicted in deep meditation, symbolizing transcendence and inner peace. With his third eye, he represents wisdom and insight, capable of both annihilating ignorance and bestowing enlightenment. As the lord of renunciation, he challenges devotees to transcend worldly attachments and embrace spiritual ascension. Yet, he is also the benevolent protector, offering solace and guidance to those in need.
This book explores the side of Shiva that is completely hidden from us, giving us a deeper insight into the unexplored personality that he is.
The story of the kingdom that Ravana had ruled lay over the island like a fading, antique map. The edges of the story were frayed and there were lines disconnected by time, but the landscape it traced, exists.
Demonized as he was after his death, the reign of King Ravana of Lanka, and his ancestors, the powerful Mayuranga, has long been obscured and shrouded in myth. Once, their kingdom is believed to have reached beyond the shores of the island, capturing lands across the seas—a kingdom of that magnitude was never seen again on Lanka. In a bid to shed light on this lost era, Sunela Jayewardene travelled through Sri Lanka, and listened to the storytellers and poets, researched Sri Lanka’s folklore, sifted through race and religion . . . to stitch together a history of a forgotten landscape.
This remarkable, vivid book is the story Sunela learnt of King Ravana and the kingdom that he lost.
Hindu nationalism is transforming India as an increasingly dominant ideology and political force. But it is also a global phenomenon, with sections of India’s vast and influential diaspora drawn to, or actively supporting, right-wing Hindu nationalism. Indians overseas can be seen as an important, even inextricable, aspect of the movement. This is not a new dynamic—diasporic Hindutva has grown over many decades.
This book explores how and why the movement became popular among India’s diaspora from the second half of the twentieth century. It shows that Hindutva ideology and its plethora of organizations have a distinctive resonance and way of operating overseas; the movement and its ideas perform significant, particular functions for diaspora communities.
Edward T.G. Anderson argues that transnational Hindutva cannot simply be viewed as an export: this phenomenon has evolved and been shaped into an important aspect of diasporic identity, a way for people to connect with their homeland. He also sheds light on the impact of conservative Indian politics on British multiculturalism, migrant politics and relations between various minority communities.
Western thought on leadership is trait-oriented; it emphasizes the importance of ‘being a leader’. Indian leadership offers a contrast—it focuses on the ‘exercise of leadership’. Power Within introspects on this practice as it captures the civilizational wisdom of Bharat through the lived experience of Prime Minister Narendra Modi. The book delves into the fifty years of his public life and explores how he discovered his purpose, the seeds of which were sown in his formative years. Poignant anecdotes from his colleagues shed light on how his relentless hard work and communicative approach propelled him to the prime ministerial post. They also underscore his constant quest for self-discovery in the service of others.
In a carefully crafted narrative, R. Balasubramaniam captures Modi’s leadership journey and interprets it
through Western and Indic lenses, amalgamating them to provide a road map for those who aspire to a life of public service.
Right now, your body is VERY busy.
Even when you’re sleeping, your body is breathing, pumping blood and keeping you healthy!
But HOW does it work?
This bright and easy-to-read body book introduces children to the wonders of the human body. Packed with bite-sized facts and easy-to-understand explanations, this engaging book is perfect for curious minds.
With gorgeous and vibrant illustrations by Ekaterina Trukhan, Wise About My Body offers children a clear introduction to the body, showcasing how it works, what it can do and how a body can be looked after.
आज के सर्वाधिक लोकप्रिय उपन्यासकार नरेन्द्र कोहली की लेखनी से उपजा एक प्रेम आख्यान है प्रीति-कथा। इस उपन्यास में प्रेम दर्शन की तमाम बारीकियों को रेखांकित किया गया है और ज़िंदगी की कुछ आधारभूत सच्चाइयों से रूबरू कराते हुए कथा में अनूठे रंग भरे गए हैं। यह विनीत की कहानी है, जो केतकी और मल्लिका के बिना पूरी नहीं होती। इसमें अनुराग की दो धाराएँ हैं जो प्रेम के समुंदर में पहुँचकर विलीन हो जाना चाहती हैं, पर प्रेम के प्रति सरोकार अलग किस्म के हैं।
अलका बेहद परेशान है। कहती तो कुछ नहीं, बस गुमसुम-सी अकेली बैठी रहती है। लगता है, एकांत में रोती भी रहती है।
अब रो लेना ठीक है, लेकिन अगर यहाँ ब्याह हो जाए तो जीवन-भर रोती रहेगी।
सगाई के बाद उभरकर आती लड़के वालों की कमियों एवं छिपाई गई बातों की सच्ची कहानी। कन्या-पक्ष की मानसिक ऊहापोह तथा बेचैनियों की तिलमिला देने वाली कथा। सफल उपन्यासकार दत्त भारती का एक ऐसा उपन्यास, जो आपको रुलाकर रख देगा।
‘हे बुद्ध, मैं तुमको, धम्म को और संघ को शरणागत हूँ . . . बस, यही त्रिरत्न मेरी कुल संपदा है अन्यथा और कुछ भी नहीं है मेरे पास . . .
बौद्ध धर्म के पालन के लिए किसी भी व्यक्ति को तीन बातों पर अमल करना होगा : पहली उसे सभी सिद्धांतों की जानकारी हो। दूसरी सिद्धांतों को व्यवहार में लाने के लिए रूपरेखा सामने हो। तीसरी रूपरेखा को व्यवहार में उतारने के लिए साहस, संकल्प व अनुशासन हो।
यह पुस्तक पहली दो आवश्यकताओं की पूर्ति करती है, जबकि तीसरी आवश्यकता को पूरा करना आप पर निर्भर है यह धम्म की पुकार थी कि धम्मचारी सुभूति के शृंखलाबद्ध प्रवचनों का अनुवाद करने का विचार मन में उठा। इसी का प्रतिफल यह पुस्तक है, जो हर किसी को धम्म पर चलने और बुद्धत्व प्राप्त करने का मार्ग दिखाएगी।
फ़ैज़ अहमद फै़ज़ उर्दू के बहुत ही जाने-माने कवि थे। आधुनिक उर्दू शायरी को उन्होंने एक नई ऊँचाई दी। इस पुस्तक में उनकी जीवनी एवं शायरी दी गई है। फै़ज़ अहमद फै़ज़ की उर्दू कविता दुआ का बलोची अनुवाद बलोच कवि गुल खान नासिर द्वारा किया गया। 20वीं सदी का वो महान् उर्दू शायर जिसने सरकारी तमगों और पुरस्कारों के लिए नहीं, जिसने शराब की चाशनी में डूबती-नाचती महबूबाओं के लिए नहीं, जिसने मज़ारों और बेवफ़ाईयों के लिए नहीं बल्कि अपने इंसान होने के एहसास, समाज और देश के लिए, एक सही और बराबरी की व्यवस्था वाले लोकतंत्र के लिए इंकलाब को अपने कलम की स्याही बनाया और ज़ुल्म-ओ-सितम में जी रहे लोगों को वो दिया जो बंदूकों और तोपखानों से बढ़कर था। फ़ैज़ की कविताओं में जितना ज़िंदा वो सच है जिसमें हम जी रहे हैं, उतना ही ज़िंदा वो हौसला है जिसकी बदौलत आदम-ओ-हव्वा की औलादें अपने वर्तमान को बदल सकती हैं।
